City moves chipping site

By AMANDA ROGERS Canyon News staff

Published 9:00 am, Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Commissioners for the City of Canyon met Monday evening to discuss mostly routine business. During his briefing, Randy Criswell, city manger, told commissioners that the current brush and chipping site will be closed and relocated.

The current site is located at the old Santa Fe Depot at 2nd Avenue and 10th Street. It is slated to close permanently Jan. 31. On Feb. 3 a new site will be opened adjacent to Republic SW Landfill on Helium Road, northwest of the city.

The new site is immediately east of the landfill “scale house” and must be accessed by the road into the landfill at the intersection of Helium Road and West Country Club Road. Operating hours at the new site will be the same as those for the landfill of 7 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Friday, 8 a.m.-noon Saturday and closed on Sunday.

This new site is designated for brush only, and no other type of refuse will be permitted.

“We received a grant years ago to put in a chip site, and we did at the Santa Fe depot. That site has become too small and difficult to work around. When it’s full we have to close the gates so we can get in there and get a chipper to clean it out. Then, people leave stuff outside the gates,” Criswell said.

“We’ve prepared that new spot, surrounded by cable fence, just east of the gates into the landfill. We own property directly adjacent to that. It will be bigger, easier to access and easier to manage. That area is growing over there, and you get a little more conscious about having a chip site in an area that’s developing.”

While the new chip site will no longer be available seven days a week, 24 hours a day, the city will continue its service of picking up tree limbs from alleys.

“We believe the majority of limbs in our chip site are from contractors anyway,” Criswell said.

For further information, call the public works department at 655-5011.